Comments on: Nobody told me

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:22:45 +0000

You are worried about grey hair?? What about the fact that we will all die some day????

By: ranckle

ranckle — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:35:08 +0000

at least you gots hair, dude.

By: R-Laurraine Tutihasi

R-Laurraine Tutihasi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:12:30 +0000

That’s nothing. I got my first white hair when I was eleven.

By: John Casey

John Casey — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:09:16 +0000

Sean, you haven’t addressed the really _fun_ part of your early forties: The fact that at approxiately age 42, 5 months, 15 days (+/- 30 days), your arms will grow progressively shorter and shorter while reading– or at least, so it will seem.

Reading glasses/bifocals, it isn’t a good idea, its the LAW!

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:22:59 +0000

Like Sean, I started getting some white hair in my 40′s, but it remains mostly confined to the beard and sideburn. At 57 the muzzle is completely white but the mane remains brown. Even more distressing are the odd white hairs that pop out at random: on the eyelid and the side of the nose. Having to shave the tops of one’s ears just feels wrong.

It could be worse, though. My father had roughly the same pattern of graying, but he only grew out his beard once. He smoked so heavily that his moustache turned out bright yellow, so he shaved it, and for the duration of the experiment he looked like a whaling captain.

By: John R Ramsden

John R Ramsden — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:51:07 +0000

I thought my first gray hairs were normal hairs being bleached by shampoo, until the truth dawned when rinsing the shampoo off quicker and more thoroughly had no effect!

Your pic doesn’t show you wearing specs, but in ten years’ time, when you’re my age now, you’ll find you start needing longer arms to read!

Oh the joys of middle age..

By: Coruscatus

Coruscatus — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:36:32 +0000

Wait till your pubic hair starts coming out your ears and eyebrows!

By: foray

foray — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:21:55 +0000

Ummm are you sure it’s just starting? My husband was shocked last week to find his
first gray hair. But he’s had them for years! He just never noticed before.

By: milkshake

milkshake — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:32:18 +0000

except that gray matter is actually of darker shades of pink. Only when we die it turns gray due to autolysis.

My grandpa got completely bald in his twenites, to his despair, yet it probably made him more respected at work in his younger years – and paradoxically attractive to women on lookout to marry someone: He was a solid, disciplined man with a responsible job in a bank – and his giant bald head with modest demeanor made him exactly look the part. So enjoy looking more distinguished, you never know what kind of unexpected benefits…

By: Ned Wright

Ned Wright — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:31:12 +0000

Better gray than falling out. E. C. Olson of UCLA used to joke that as we get older our hairs burrow deeper into our skulls. If they meet gray matter they turn gray. If not, they fall out.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:16:27 +0000

At the ripe old age of 16 sir. thats when my first started coming in.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:28:55 +0000

Grey hair? At least you have hair. My hair line began its retreat when I was 16. Now at 31 I have had a clean-shaved scalp for years, my once thick blond hair a distant memory. On the plus side, I don’t have bad hair days, I have Gilette.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:42:39 +0000

Gray hair will make you look more distinguished and give you more street cred

By: John Farrell

John Farrell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:01:19 +0000

I sympathize, Sean. Or as Bruce Willis said in Die Hard, “Welcome to the party, pal!”

By: Thomas Larsson

Thomas Larsson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:00:38 +0000

My youngest daughter once tried to cheer me up: “Your hair is not all grey, dad. There is some white, too”.

By: wtf

wtf — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:49:00 +0000

Sean, ma man, this is not the time to wallow in self-pity and listen to your dumbass commenters! Chicks dig this shit, bro! I shit you not. All you need now is a pimped out bright yellow van of L-O-V-E and before you know it, you will be compactifying some serious Calabi-Yaus. Day-um, you lucky dawg!!!! You!

By: Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:21:18 +0000

To dye or not to dye? I decided straight away that it was too much trouble to match the colors well enough, and that the wild laughs when someone noticed that I was dyeing my hair for vanity’s sake outweighed the odd laugh at the odd gray hairs. If you have to dye, I recommend Purple.

By: Spiv

Spiv — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:48:47 +0000

sean; Would you rather sympathy or empathy?

I’m 27 and get a couple grays poking out here and there, but honestly I’d love it if the whole thing went full silver. I think I’d look good like that.

Be lucky, my younger brother is definitely working on the male-pattern-thinning stage at 25, and I think he’s been trying to stave it off for a few years now.

By: John Baez

John Baez — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:58:58 +0000

What did people do before blogs were invented?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:24:02 +0000

This is good news, Sean! You now qualify to own a yacht, as well as for a lifetime prescription for Viagra. So, you can look forward to many happy “golden” years.